We rolled into Louisville on Friday, August 27th and got settled into the Galt House Hotel as quickly as possible.The Galt House was also the "host" hotel for the event, which meant most of the registration, expo, medicals, etc. were all done there.
After we got in our room, brought the bikes up, etc. we went down for check-in. This was much quicker than in Madison last year.
Next we had to go through our "medicals"; get weighed, check our body comp, hydration levels, etc. (amazing what a week of carb-loading will do to your weight!)
We then stopped at the IronMan store for some quick shopping and headed out for some dinner. We treated ourselves to sushi (rice is good carbs) and were back for the participant meeting at 7:30pm. The meeting was probably longer than it needed to be, but we we did learn all about the rules of the course, met a woman who lost more than 100 pounds training for the race as well as the guy who has competed in every place there has been an IronMan. (can you say too much time and money???)
We were in bed early as we looked ahead to Saturday's prep of all our equipment and bikes for race day.
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